On Tue, 2006-11-07 at 15:00 +1300, Mark Kirkwood wrote: > Simon Riggs wrote: > > EnterpriseDB has been running a research project to improve the > > performance of heavily updated tables. We have a number of approaches > > prototyped and we'd like to discuss the best of these now on -hackers > > for community input and patch submission to PostgreSQL core. > > > > Excellent! It would certainly be good for use cases like: > > - session data from web (or similar) applications > - real time summary tables maintained by triggers > > to "just work", as (certainly in the case of the first one) quite a few > folks have been bitten by exactly the issue you describe.
...and of course it would be good if LISTEN/NOTIFY were able to use this concept also, to help Slony along also. -- Simon Riggs EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 6: explain analyze is your friend
